The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-24
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

General Manager Beckley of the Cincinnati Wa.
bash 81 Michigan is to be III the city to-day official
business
S M Matthers conductor on the Ohio & Mssis-
sippi has resigned and taken similar position ON the
L., n. A. a. c. road.
One question which worries railroad officials is how
they can obtain free transportation for their families
under the interstate act.
j. R. Jennings who for some years past has been
conductor Of freight trains on the IT,, n. A & c.,
has been promoted to the conductorship of pas,
senger train.
The new railroad mileage of main line built thus
far this year is about three times great that
reported to the corresponding date in either OF the
past two years.
A broken rail on the L.. N. A. e c. Airline some
sxty'eght miles north of indianapolis demoralzed
things generally on the Airline yesterday No person
was injured, and the damage to property slight
Charles W. Rogers, lately vice presdent of the St.
Louis g. San Francisco road died at South Pasadena,
Cal, on Tuesday. The deceased born Oct. z
1884. at Ezets:: y. H. and in the railway bust
ness for about fifteen years
James keogh, passenger conductor on the va6dalia
has set the railroad fraternity excellent example
He married at $50 A. M and at 7:3O A. M took
his train out for st. Louis as usual except that he
took his new wife along with him.
r. Harding. superintendent of the Wichita & Colo.
raoo road and the st. Louis, Fort Scott s. Wichita
| road, announces that E. A. Smith, commercial
agent at Wichita, Kan. has resigned W. p Nc
Nair has been appointed freight agent at Wichita
Commissioner George H. Daniels has called a meet
partmeht, to be held in Chicago to-day for the pur.
of preparing report TO be submitted to the gen.
e-a managers meeting to be held in New York on
March 3.
The Baker heaters for passenger coaches will no.
come unpopular if they keep on blowing nip. It is
but a short time since one exploded one of the
Woodruff cars running on the l.. B. s. W.. and now
the Wabash has had frsteass explosion of the same
heater.
T. II. Hendry. district passenger agent Of the A.
T. q st F. road. and his aniable wife last evening
woo dino Ec%l
versary of their marriage large number of their
friends dropped in during the evening bringing APP
propriate presents.
meeting of the Ohio River pool. passenger de.
partment was held on Tuesday at the Office of Com
missioner l.. D. Richardson when the making of spe-
cal excursion rates to Florida during the month of
March was considered. No action was taken how.
ever, and the matter will now probably be dropped
Col William Shaw. district passenger agent of the
c. b. g., is in the city. He has just returned from
an extended Western trip. The Colonel is giving
his special attention to letting the travelling public
know that the c., B. & @. has ST. Paul exten.
sion, and can handle business promptly as their
competitors.
The passage of the interstate-commerce hill h.s IN;
terfered materially with the placing of orders of steel
rails and other products of furnaces and rolling
as the railroads have teen refusing to make rates for
transportation after April s. necesstat;ng the refusal
of orders for future delivery until such time as the
cost of freight can be definitely ascertained
There are four engineers the c., l., St. L. & G.
road who have been running passenger trains on that
Eoau twenty years or more namely, James Watson
James Boyd, Edward Walls and George Lamb That
they are prudent competent is evidenced in the
iact that neither have had accident befal their
ton
There strange things going on In connection with
the receiyership OF Judge Cooley of the Wabash lines
east OF the river For instance all lines under the
Cooley management it is stated report TO A. A. Tall
mage, former general manager the as before the
Talnage has es much apparently as ever to do with
operating the road, and with who are watching